The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1939-1948)

In 1938, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee began writing scripts for radio shows.  They broke their teeth writing for Alias Continue reading →

The Door Between (1937)

Hot on the heels of Halfway House came The Door Between. Both titles denote transitions, and perhaps the cousins were Continue reading →

Halfway House (1936)

A condensed version of this novel appeared in Cosmopolitan (June, 1936). I wonder what was cut out of, or later Continue reading →

The Lamp of God (1935)

The House of Haunts, a novella, was originally published in Street & Smiths Detective Story Magazine in October, 1935. The Continue reading →

The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

In The Chinese Orange Mystery the victim was stripped naked and re-dressed with his clothes on backwards in order to Continue reading →

The Adventure of The House of Darkness (1935)

Here comes a relaxed mystery, where the corpse doesn’t show up until two-thirds of the way through the story, when Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats (1934)

Harry Potter, a middle-aged building superintendent living with his portly wife in Manhattan, moonlighting in a Long Island chemical factory, Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Invisible Lover (1934)

Not quite Wrightsville, yet, and not quite a radio drama, but getting there.  The Adventure of the Invisible Lover, once Continue reading →